Thomas Joseph DODD

(1907-1971)

Senate Years of Service:

1959-1971

Party:

Democrat

DODD, Thomas Joseph,
(father of Christopher John Dodd), a Representative and a Senator
from Connecticut; born in Norwich, New London County, Conn., May
15, 1907; attended the public schools; graduated from St.
Anselm’s Preparatory School in 1926, Providence College in
1930, and Yale University Law School in 1933; special agent for
Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1933 and 1934; Connecticut
director of National Youth Administration 1935-1938; assistant to
five successive United States Attorneys General 1938-1945; vice
chairman, Board of Review, and later executive trial counsel,
Office of the United States Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of
Axis Criminality at Nuremberg, Germany, in 1945 and 1946; engaged
in private practice of law in Hartford, Conn., 1947-1953; elected
as a Democrat to the Eighty-third and Eighty-fourth Congresses
(January 3, 1953-January 3, 1957); was unsuccessful for election to
the United States Senate in 1956; elected as a Democrat to the
United States Senate in 1958; reelected in 1964 and served from
January 3, 1959, to January 3, 1971; unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1970; censured by the Senate in 1967 for financial
misconduct; was a resident of Old Lyme, Conn., until his death on
May 24, 1971; interment in St. Michael’s New Cemetery,
Pawcatuck, Conn.